Conference
"Approaching the Multilanguage Complexity of European Law: Methodologies in Comparison"

European University Institute, Fiesole (Italy)
17 November 2006

Conference Program

9.00 - 10.50 Session I (Chair: Jacques Ziller)

9.00 -  9.10  Opening

Daniela Tiscornia (Ittig-CNR National Research Council)

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (EUI - European University Institute)

9.10 –  9.30 Giovanni Sartor (EUI - European University Institute), Concepts in law and knowledge representation

9.30 – 9.50 Antonio Gambaro (University of Milano), Legal concepts and legal comparison

9.50 – 10.15 Pascale Berteloot (Office des Publications officielles de l’Union Européenne), Legal concepts in a multilingual institutional environments

10.15 – 10.45 Discussion

10.45 - 11.00 Coffe break

11.00 – 12.30 Session II (Chair: Barbara Pozzo) 

11.00 – 11.30 Gianmaria Ajani (University of Torino), The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus

11.30 – 12.00 Ugo Pagallo (University of Torino), "Small world" paradigm and empirical research in legal ontologies

12.00 – 12.15 Discussant Jacques Ziller (EUI - European University Institute)

12.15 – 12.30 Discussant Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology - LOA, ISTC-CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies)

12.30 – 12.50 Emanuele Bottazzi, Jos Lehmann (Laboratory for Applied Ontology - LOA, ISTC-CNR), Ontology-based modelling of legal concepts

12.50 – 13.20 Discussant Michele Graziadei (University of Piemonte Orientale)

13.20 – 14.30 Lunch

15.00 – 15.15 Discussant Raffaele Caterina (University of Torino)

15.15 – 15.30 Discussant Pascale Berteloot (Office des Publications officielles de l’Union Européenne)

15.30– 16.00 Leonardo Lesmo, Guido Boella, Alessandro Mazzei, Piercarlo Rossi (University of Torino), Multilingual conceptual dictionaries based on ontologies

16.00 – 16.15 Discussant  Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology - LOA, ISTC-CNR)

16.15 – 16.30 Discussant Riccardo Gualdo (University of Lecce)

16.30 – 17.00  Coffee break

17.00 – 18.30  Session VI  (Chair: Nicola Guarino)

17.00 – 17.30 Mathieu Devinat (University of Sherbrooke), The Private Law Dictionary / Dictionnaire de droit privé and Bilingual Lexicons

17.30 – 17.45 Discussant Vincenzo Varano (University of Firenze)

17.45 – 18.00 Discussant Manuela Guggeis (EU Council)

18.00 – 18.30 General discussion and Concluding remarks by Gianmaria Ajani

Social Dinner

Working languages: English and French

Conference Secretariat

Enrico Francesconi
Ginevra Peruginelli
Piercarlo Rossi

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